MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050952 A) filed by Sr University, Warangal, Telangana, on April 21, for 'pollen hybridization and traceable floral breeding laboratory system.'

Inventor(s) include G. Prasanna; and Narkhede Gopal Wasudeo.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A pollen hybridization and traceable floral breeding laboratory system, comprises of an enclosure 101, a multi-compartment laboratory housing comprising a plurality of storage chambers including pollen storage chambers 102 and maternal plant storage chambers 103, a front-facing interactive control display 201 operatively to receive breeder inputs for hybridization objectives and parental genotype selection, a predictive module operatively to analyze historical data, recommend pollen-flower pairings, and optimize protocols based on reinforcement learning, a floral identification and reproductive status assessment module to identify flower's sex, stigma receptivity, anther maturity, and emasculation completeness, a spatial positioning unit 104 to align pollen storage chambers 102 and maternal plant storage chambers 103 with a multi-sterilization inoculation chamber 105, a clamp assembly 106 to retrieve pollen and maternal plants from respective storage chambers 102, 103 and position them for further processing, and a pollen application unit to deposit pollen precisely onto the stigma."

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